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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: Matthias Fend <matthias.fend@emfend.at>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: One barebox image for multiple boards
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 14:20:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ac33383-0da9-7609-0ba0-61cf02fd4034@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d23b3c4-8374-6e17-05ab-ed3829d985a0@emfend.at>

Hello Matthias,

On 13.05.22 14:08, Matthias Fend wrote:
> Hello Sam,
> 
> Am 13.05.2022 um 12:30 schrieb Sam Ravnborg:
>> Hi Matthias
>>
>> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:55:02AM +0200, Matthias Fend wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a solution to support multiple boards with just one barebox
>>> image. The few core components that are relevant for barebox are the same on
>>> all boards, so that the same barebox image runs on all boards. It is
>>> possible to dynamically detect the board type inside barebox, but as this
>>> requires some infrastructure it is not possible during lowlevel init.
>>
>> The skov-imx6 boards was in a similar situation - here the solution was
>> to add enough infrastructure to lowlevel to be able to determine the
>> board variant.
>>
>> Not what you asked for but maybe duplicating the minimal set of
>> infrastructure allows you to determine the board type anyway in lowlevel?
> 
> Thank you for pointing out this interesting example.
> Since in this case things like I2C devices are needed for board detection, I think putting them in lowlevel init is not a good idea.

The i.MX8MN-EVK uses i2c to differentiate between two variants,
look for power_init_board_pca9450 and power_init_board_bd71837.

We don't pass different device trees there, but this can easily
be retrofitted once it's useful (i.e. once we have PMIC drivers
for one of these chips).

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 
> Thanks
>  ~Matthias
> 
>>
>>     Sam
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-13 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-13  8:55 Matthias Fend
2022-05-13 10:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-05-13 12:08   ` Matthias Fend
2022-05-13 12:20     ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2022-05-13 18:02       ` Trent Piepho
2022-05-13 12:23     ` Sascha Hauer
2022-05-13 11:00 ` Sascha Hauer
2022-05-13 12:10   ` Matthias Fend
2022-05-16  8:07     ` Sascha Hauer
2022-05-19  9:25       ` Matthias Fend

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